2016 Bram Stoker Awards Final Ballot

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) announced the finalists for the 2016 Bram Stoker Awards on February 23, 2017.

Superior Achievement in a Novel

• Hard Light, Elizabeth Hand (Minotaur)
• Mongrels, Stephen Graham Jones (William Morrow)
• The Fisherman, John Langan (Word Horde)
• Stranded, Bracken MacLeod (Tor)
• Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, Paul Tremblay (William Morrow)

Superior Achievement in a First Novel

• The Apothecary’s Curse, Barbara Barnett (Pyr)
• Hollow House, Greg Chapman (Omnium Gatherum)
• Haven, Tom Deady (Cemetery Dance)
• Mayan Blue, Michelle Garza & Melissa Lason (Sinister Grin)
• The Eighth, Stephanie M. Wytovich (Dark Regions)

Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel

• Snowed, Maria Alexander (Raw Dog Screaming)
• Last Days of Salton Academy, Jennifer Brozek (Ragnarok)
• Holding Smoke, Elle Cosimano (Disney-Hyperion)
• When They Fade, Jeyn Roberts (Knopf)
• The Telling, Alexandra Sirowy (Simon & Schuster)

Superior Achievement in Long Fiction

• The Sadist’s Bible, Nicole Cushing (01Publishing)
• “That Perilous Stuff”, Scott Edelman (Chiral Mad 3)
• The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle (Tor.com Publishing)
• “The Jupiter Drop”, Josh Malerman (You, Human)
• The Winter Box, Tim Waggoner (Darkfuse)

Superior Achievement in Short Fiction

• “Time is a Face on the Water”, Michael Bailey (Borderlands 6)
• “A Rift in Reflection”, Hal Bodner (Chiral Mad 3)
• “The Bad Hour”, Christopher Golden (What the #@&% Is That?)
• “Arbeit Macht Frei”, Lisa Mannetti (Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories)
• “The Crawl Space”, Joyce Carol Oates (Ellery Queen 9-10/16)

Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection

• Swift to Chase, Laird Barron (JournalStone)
• A Long December, Richard Chizmar (Subterranean)
• The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror, Joyce Carol Oates (Mysterious)
• Lethal Birds, Gene O’Neill (Omnium Gatherum)
• American Nocturne, Hank Schwaeble (Cohesion)

Superior Achievement in an Anthology

• Chiral Mad 3, Michael Bailey, ed. (Written Backwards)
• The Beauty of Death, Alessandro Manzetti, ed. (Independent Legions)
• Borderlands 6, Oliva F. Monteleone & Thomas F. Monteleone, eds. (Samhain)
• Fright Mare – Women Write Horror, Billie Sue Mosiman, ed. (self-published)
• Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories, Doug Murano & D. Alexander Ward, eds. (Crystal Lake)

Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction

• Haunted, Leo Braudy (Yale University Press)
• Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, Ruth Franklin (Liveright)
• Guillermo del Toro’s “The Devil’s Backbone” and “Pan’s Labyrinth”, Danel P. Olson (Centipede)
• In the Mountains of Madness, W. Scott Poole (Soft Skull)
• Something in the Blood, David J. Skal (Liveright)
• The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub, John Tibbetts (McFarland)

Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection

• Sacrificial Nights, Bruce Boston & Alessandro Manzetti (Kipple Officina Libraria)
• Corona Obscura, Michael R. Collings (self-published)
• Field Guide to the End of the World, Jeannine Hall Gailey (Moon City)
• Small Spirits, Marge Simon (self-published)
• Brothel, Stephanie M. Wytovich (Raw Dog Screaming)

Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel

• Blood Feud, Cullen Bunn (Oni)
• Kolchak the Night Stalker: The Forgotten Lore of Edgar Allan Poe, James Chambers (Moonstone)
• No Mercy: Volume 2, Alex de Campi (Image)
• Outcast: Volume 3: This Little Light, Robert Kirkman (Image)
• The Steam Man, Mark Alan Miller & Joe R. Lansdale (Dark Horse)
• Providence: Act 1, Alan Moore (Avatar)

Superior Achievement in a Screenplay

• Penny Dreadful: “A Blade of Grass”
• Stranger Things: “The Upside Down”
• Stranger Things: “The Vanishing of Will Byers”
• 10 Cloverfield Lane
• The Witch

Active and lifetime HWA members are eligible to vote for winners.

Winners will be honored April 29, 2017 at a gala held aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach CA during StokerCon. For more information, see the HWA website.